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another option. Today's episode is in

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the Tranquilusionist style to give your

2:05

brain a break. Well I say

2:07

words that are not too consequential

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over a soothing backing track. And

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this time the words are all

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the randomly selected words from the

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dictionary from every episode of the

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you've never made it to the

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all the randomly selected words from

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the dictionary. but here they are

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united. As always there is a

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about any of the spellings head

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over there. Let's get on with

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all of the randomly selected words

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from the dictionary today.

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A long flexible stem of

3:02

a climbing plant, especially the hop.

3:04

Yarbrough, noun, in bridge or wist,

3:06

a hand with no card above

3:08

a nine. Nomological, adjective,

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relating to or denoting natural

3:13

laws which are neither

3:15

logically necessary nor theoretically

3:17

explicable, but just are

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so. Grandpus, noun, one, a killer

3:22

whale or other citation of

3:24

the dolphin family, two, British,

3:27

British, dated, dated, dated, dated,

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Someone or something, breathing loudly

3:31

and heavily. Jobbery. Noun. The

3:34

practice of using a public

3:36

office or position of trust

3:39

for one's own gain or

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advantage. Upsimath. Noun. Poetic

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slash literary. A person

3:45

who begins to learn or study

3:48

only late in life. Ventefact. Noun.

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Geology. A stone shaped by

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the erosive action of windblown

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sand. Dewglaw. noun, a rudimentary

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in a toe present in

3:59

Some dogs, a false hoof on

4:01

an animal such as a deer,

4:04

which is formed by its rudimentary

4:06

side toes. Scoot, noun, zoology. A

4:08

thickened, horny or bony plate

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on a turtle's shell, or

4:12

on the back of a

4:14

crocodile, Stegosaurus, etc. Detritivore, noun,

4:17

zoology, an animal which

4:19

feeds on dead organic

4:21

material, especially plant detritus.

4:23

Univocal, adjective, philosophy and

4:25

linguistics linguistics linguistics,

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having only one

4:31

possible meaning, unambiguous.

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Anserine, adjective, of

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or like, a goose. Famulus, noun,

4:38

historical, an assistant or

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servant, especially one working

4:43

for a magician or

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scholar. Marcescent, adjective,

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botany, of leaves or

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fronds, withering, but remaining attached

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to the stem. Timocracy, noun

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chiefly philosophy, one. A form

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of government in which possession

4:59

of property is required in

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order to hold office. Two,

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a form of government in

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which rulers are motivated

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by ambition or love of

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honour. Lunula, noun, one, the

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white area at the base

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of a fingernail. Two, a

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crescent-shaped bronze age ornament. Edafic,

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adjective, ecology of, produced by

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or influenced by the soil.

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Regulus, noun, chemistry, archaic. A

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metallic form of a substance

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obtained by smelting or reduction.

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Hexiety, noun, philosophy, one, the

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quality of a thing that

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makes it unique or describable

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as this, brackets one, two,

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individuality, whim, noun, archaic, one,

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a quaint and decorative object,

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a trinket, two, a whim,

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blunge, verb, Mix brackets clay

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or other materials close brackets

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with water in a revolving

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apparatus for use in ceramics.

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Paveage. Now. historical, attacks or

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toll to cover the paving

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of streets, cash a lot, noun,

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another term for sperm whale.

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Your, verb, brackets of a

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moving ship or aircraft, close

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brackets, twist or oscillate about

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a vertical axis, noun, twisting

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or oscillation of a moving

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ship or aircraft about a

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vertical axis. Obilise, verb, mark

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brackets as spurious or doubtful

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word or passage, close brackets

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with an obelus. Kenning, noun,

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a compound expression in Old

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English and Old Norse poetry

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with metaphorical meaning, e.g.

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Or steed, equals ship.

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Nival, adjective, of or

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relating to regions of

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perpetual snow. Spiflicate, verb,

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informal, slash humorous, destroy

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or defeat utterly. Geniculate,

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geniculated, adjective. Bent like

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a knee, jointed, knotted,

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verb transitive, geniculate, geniculate.

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to form joints in.

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noun geniculation. Veridical, adjective,

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truth-telling, coinciding with fact,

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brackets of a dream

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or vision, close brackets,

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corresponding exactly with what

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has happened, or with

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what happens later, seemingly

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true to fact. Jetton, noun, a

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counter or token used as a

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gambling chip or to operate slot

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machines. A port, noun, an object

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produced supposedly by occult means at

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a seance. Mooey, noun, an old

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French measure for capacity, a

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hog's head, a dry measure

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for corn, etc. South Africa,

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a sack of three bushels.

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Trecht, noun, historical,

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an allowance of extra weight

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made to purchases of certain

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goods to compensate for waste

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during transportation. Figurant,

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noun, a supernumerary actor

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who has little or nothing

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to say. Urinant, adjective, heraldry.

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Diving, head down. noun,

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urinator, a diver. Ruel,

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noun, the space between a

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bed and the wall, a

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bedchamber where aristocratic French women

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held receptions in the 17th

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and 18th century, a morning

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reception, in France, a narrow

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lane, bum bailiff, noun, historical,

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derogatory, a bailiff who collected

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debts or arrested debtors. Locorerestive,

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brackets, adjective, staying in one

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place. Humorously modelled on locomotive.

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from Latin rastari to stay

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still. Zonder, noun, a hot

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dusty north wind in Argentina.

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In brave, verb transitive, to

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make showy, to decorate, bracket

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Spencer, to inspire with bravery.

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Quadrivium, noun, a medieval university

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course comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy

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and music. Origin Latin, literally,

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the place where four roads

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meet. Like trivia, the place

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where three roads meet. Ditography,

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noun, unintentional repetition of words

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or letters by a scribe

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or printer in copying a

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manuscript. Washin, noun, aeronautics, an

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increase in the angle of

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incidence of an aeroplane wing

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towards the tip. Hyperbaton, noun,

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rhetoric, an inversion of the

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normal order of words, especially

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for emphasis, as in this

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I must see. Celsitude, noun,

9:17

loftiness. Prosopopir, noun, noun, noun,

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noun, noun, noun, a figure

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of speech in which an

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abstract thing is personified, or

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an imagined or absent person

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is represented as speaking. Kipe,

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noun, a hook formed on

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the lower jaw of adult

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male salmon and trout during

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the breeding season. Spitchcock, noun,

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an eel that has been

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split and grilled or fried.

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Ferb to spitchcock, prepare an

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eel or other fish this

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way. Imminent, adjective, existing or

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operating within, brackets of God

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closed brackets, permanently pervading the

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universe, permanently pervading the universe.

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often contrasted with transcendent. Yips

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plural. noun, informal, extreme nervousness

10:02

causing a golfer to miss

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easy putts. Grills, noun, a

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salmon that has returned to fresh

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water after a single winter at

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sea. Meet us, noun, anatomy, the

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opening of a passage or

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canal. Theurgy, noun, one, the

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operation or effect of a

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supernatural or divine agency in

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human affairs, two, a system

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of white magic practice by

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the early Neoplatonists. Autotelic, adjective,

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of an activity or creative

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work, having an end or

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purpose in itself, flier,

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verb, poetic, slash literary,

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laugh impudently or jeeringly,

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noun, archaic, an impudent

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or jeering look or

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speech, non-coopative, adjective, law,

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brackets of a will

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or testament, closed brackets,

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declared orally, especially by

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a mortally wounded soldier

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or sailor. Rail, noun,

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usually rails, medicine, an

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abnormal rattling sound heard

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when examining unhealthy lungs

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with a stethoscope. Ultradian,

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adjective, physiology, recurring more

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than once a day,

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but less than once an

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hour, compare with infradian,

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bunt, one, noun, the baggy centre

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of a fishing net or a

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sail. Two, noun, a disease of

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wheat caused by a smut fungus,

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the spores of which smell of

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rotten fish. Three, verb, one, baseball

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of a batter, gently tap, brackets,

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a pitched ball, closed bracket, so

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that it does not roll beyond

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the infield. Two, but with the

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head or horns. Noun, baseball, an

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act of bunting a ball. Exeter,

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noun, physics. a mobile concentration

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of energy in a crystal

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formed by an excited electron

11:51

and an associated whole. The

11:53

Romance. Lactometer, noun, an

11:56

instrument for measuring the density

11:58

of milk. New O. tropic.

12:00

Adjective. Denoting drugs used to

12:02

enhance memory or other

12:04

cognitive functions. Delteologist.

12:06

Noun. A person who collects postcards

12:08

as a hobby. Duke.

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Verb. Scottish or Northern English. Turn

12:14

or bend quickly to avoid something.

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Commodore. Noun. Technical term

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for blackhead. Origin 19th

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century from Latin. Literally glutton. Brackets.

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A former name for parasitic

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worms. The term now refers to

12:27

the matter squeezed from a

12:29

blackhead. Close brackets. Obolus.

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Noun. Ah, the thing for doing

12:33

the obolising we heard about earlier.

12:35

A symbol, like a vertically elongated

12:38

cross, used as a reference mark

12:40

in printed matter. Or to indicate

12:42

that a person is deceased. To.

12:44

A mark. Brackets. A minus or

12:47

dividing sign. Close brackets. Used

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in ancient manuscripts to mark a

12:51

word or passage as spurious or

12:53

doubtful. Popple. Chiefly

12:55

archaic. Verb. Brackets

12:57

of water. Close brackets. Flow in

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a tumbling or rippling way.

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Noun. A rolling or rippling of

13:03

water. Hipuric. Adjective.

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Denoting an acid. First obtained from

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the urine of horses. Occurring in

13:10

the urine of many animals. Particularly

13:12

in that of herbivores and rarely

13:14

in that of human beings. Karoshi.

13:17

Noun. Japanese. Death

13:19

caused by overwork. Gastrolith.

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Noun. One. Zoology. A

13:26

small stone swallowed by a

13:28

bird, reptile or fish to aid

13:30

digestion in the gizzard. Two.

13:32

Medicine. A hard concretion in the

13:34

stomach. Tribometer. Noun. An instrument

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for measuring friction in sliding. Anaclitic.

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Adjective. Psychoanalysis. Relating

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to or characterised by a

13:46

strong emotional dependence on

13:48

another or others. Origin 1920s.

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From Greek. Anaclitos. For

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reclining. Fartlek.

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Noun. Athletics. A system of training

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for distance runners in which the

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terrain and pace are continually varied.

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Origin 1940s from Swedish,

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fart, meaning speed and

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lek, meaning play. Saros,

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noun, astronomy, a period

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of about 18 years

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between repetitions of solar

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and lunar eclipses. Exuvii,

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plural noun, also treated

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as singular, zoology, the

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cast or sloughed skin

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of an animal, especially

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of an insect larva.

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Wabbit, adjective, Scottish, Scottish,

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or slightly unwell. Introgent,

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noun, a person who

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plots something illicit or

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harmful. Metacrosis, noun, zoology,

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the ability of some

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animals, Egypt, chameleons, to change

14:41

colour. Borbarigmus, noun, technical, a

14:43

rumbling noise made by

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fluid or gas in

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the intestines. Vatic, adjective,

14:50

poetry slash literary, predicting

14:52

what will happen in the

14:54

future. Librarian, noun, astronomy. An apparent

14:56

or real oscillation of the moon,

14:58

by which parts near the edge

15:00

of the disk that are not

15:02

often visible from the earth, sometimes

15:04

come into view. Right on, noun,

15:06

an ancient Greek drinking container in

15:08

the form of an animal's head

15:10

or horn, with the drinking hole

15:12

at the lower or pointed end.

15:15

Noria, noun, a device for raising

15:17

water from a stream, consisting of

15:19

a chain of buckets revolving ground

15:21

a wheel driven by the

15:23

current. Patulous, adjective, rare. spreading

15:25

wide like the branches of

15:27

a tree. Yarak, noun, brackets

15:29

of a trained hawk, close

15:32

brackets, fit and improper condition

15:34

for hunting. Hapolology.

15:36

noun, the omission of one

15:38

occurrence of a sound or

15:40

syllable which is repeated within

15:42

a word, e.g. in February,

15:44

pronounced February. Drabble, verb,

15:46

archaic, make wet and dirty

15:48

and muddy water. A narrowmancy,

15:51

noun, the interpretation of dreams

15:53

in order to foretell the

15:55

future. Skimmington, noun, historical, a

15:58

procession intended to rid cool

16:00

and make an example of

16:02

a nagging wife or an

16:05

unfaithful husband. Glows, verb, archaic,

16:07

one, make excuses for, two,

16:09

use ingratiating or fawning language,

16:12

three, make a comment or

16:14

comments, catoptric, adjective, physics, of

16:16

or relating to a mirror

16:19

or reflection. Erticate, verb, sting

16:21

or prickle like a burn

16:23

from a nettle. Choir, noun,

16:26

one. four sheets of paper

16:28

or parchment folded to form

16:30

eight leaves as in medieval

16:33

manuscripts. Two, any collection of

16:35

leaves one within another in

16:37

a manuscript or book. Three,

16:40

twenty-five, formerly twenty-four, sheets of

16:42

paper, one twentieth of a

16:44

ream. Malversation, noun, formal, one,

16:47

corrupt behaviour in a position

16:49

of trust, two, corrupt administration

16:51

of public money, etc. Fick

16:54

dial, adjective, made of clay

16:56

by a potter. of or

16:58

relating to pottery. Oskultation, noun,

17:01

the act of listening to

17:03

sounds from the heart, lungs

17:05

or other organs with a

17:08

stethoscope. Estivers, plural noun, chiefly

17:10

historical, the right to take

17:12

wood for fuel, repairs or

17:15

other necessary purpose from land

17:17

which one doesn't own, especially

17:19

land of which one is

17:22

the tenant or lessee. Icore,

17:24

noun, one, Greek mythology. The

17:26

fluid said to flow like

17:29

blood in the veins of

17:31

the gods. Two, archaic, a

17:33

watery fetid discharge from a

17:36

wound. Very different fluids. Valerity,

17:38

noun, formal, a wish or

17:40

inclination not strong enough to

17:43

lead to action. Juicence, noun,

17:45

French, formal, pleasure. Ranta bowl,

17:47

archaic noun, a foolish reckless

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words. Theriac. Noun.

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Antidote to venomous

20:39

bites, etc. Nassau.

20:42

Nassel. Noun. One. The

20:44

outer casing on an

20:47

aircraft engine. Two. Chiefly

20:49

historical. The car on

20:52

an airship. Gyrus,

20:54

noun, a ridge or fold on

20:56

the cerebral surface in the brain.

20:59

Tatperusha, noun, a class of compound

21:01

words in which the first element

21:03

modifies the second by standing to

21:05

it in various types of relationship,

21:07

e.g. possession, as in goatskin, location,

21:09

as in field mouse, as the

21:12

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21:14

guitar player, and as agent, as

21:16

in man-made, a compound of this

21:18

class. Latration, noun, usually

21:20

facetious, usually facetious.

21:23

barking. Murakut, adjective, rough

21:25

or warty with short

21:27

sharp points. Decocked, verb,

21:30

to prepare by boiling, to

21:32

extract the substance by boiling,

21:34

to boil, to devise. Wasm,

21:37

noun, an outmoded policy, belief,

21:39

theory, doctrine or enthusiasm, and

21:41

ism of the past. Omnicompotent,

21:43

adjective, able to deal with

21:45

all matters or solve all

21:48

problems. Bricol, noun. a medieval

21:50

catapult for hurling stones, the

21:52

rebound of a ball from

21:54

the wall of a real

21:57

tennis court, a similar stroke

21:59

in billiards, a... Kironograph, noun,

22:01

an instrument for recording distant

22:03

thunderstorms. Utrechle, noun, a little

22:06

bag, bladder or cell, brackets

22:08

biology, a bladder-like envelope of

22:11

some fruits brackets botany, a

22:13

chamber in the inner ear

22:15

bracket zoology, purful, verb transitive,

22:18

to ornament the edge of

22:20

Egypt with embroidery or inlay,

22:22

noun purfeling, a decorative border,

22:24

especially around the edges of

22:27

a violin. Halter is... Entomology,

22:29

the rudimentary hindwings of flies

22:31

used to maintain balance in

22:33

flight. Sittily, noun, a Spartan's

22:35

secret writing on a strip

22:38

wound around a stick, unreadable

22:40

without a stick of the

22:42

same thickness. Ombushore, noun, one,

22:44

music, the way in which

22:46

a player applies the mouth

22:49

and tongue in playing a

22:51

brass or wind instrument, two,

22:53

archaic the mouth of a

22:55

river. Alma cantar, noun, astronomy.

22:58

A circle of altitude, parallel

23:00

to the horizon. An instrument

23:02

for determining a star's passage

23:05

across an alma camtar. Ostricon,

23:07

noun, a pots herd or

23:09

tile, especially one used in

23:12

ostracism in Greece or for writing

23:14

on in ancient Egypt. Cancrene,

23:16

adjective, crab-wise, brackets, or versus

23:19

etc. Close brackets, reading

23:21

both ways, palindromic. Tridus, noun.

23:23

Inspersated lettuce used e.g. as

23:26

a sedative. Florowit, noun,

23:28

appeared during which a person

23:30

flourished, was most active, produced

23:33

most works, etc. Lyripipe

23:35

or lyrupoup, noun, the long

23:37

tail of a graduate's hood,

23:40

a part or lesson

23:42

committed to memory, a silly

23:44

person. Those are three quite

23:47

different meanings. Hesternel, adjective

23:49

of yesterday. Quilit, noun, a

23:51

subtlety in argument, a quibble.

23:54

A quibble. Weighs goose,

23:56

noun, a printer's annual dinner

23:58

or picnic. Her, noun,

24:00

brackets in Hindu and Buddhist

24:02

tradition, close brackets, the period

24:04

between the creation and end

24:07

of the world reckoned as

24:09

4 ,320 million years and considered

24:11

as the day of Brahma.

24:13

Zoanon, noun, brackets in ancient

24:15

Greece close brackets, a primitive

24:17

wooden image of a deity. Inselberg,

24:20

noun, geology, an isolated

24:22

hill rising abruptly from a

24:24

plain. Gainaki,

24:26

noun, ruled by women or a

24:28

woman. Plantegrade, adjective, brackets of

24:30

a mammal, close brackets, walking on

24:32

the soles of the feet

24:34

like a human or bear. Wrangle,

24:37

noun, rare, gravel given

24:39

to a hawk to improve

24:42

its digestion. Bracket, adjective,

24:44

having feathered legs or feet.

24:47

I've felt a notice from one episode

24:49

to another that there's this bird

24:51

connection. Jugs, noun, a hinged iron

24:53

collar chained to a wall or

24:55

post used in medieval Scotland as

24:57

a punishment. Elem,

25:01

noun, brackets astronomy in the Big

25:03

Bang Theory, close brackets, the

25:05

primordial matter of the universe, originally

25:07

conceived as composed of neutrons

25:09

at high temperature and density. Nectophobia,

25:12

noun, extreme or irrational

25:14

fear of the night or

25:17

of darkness. Midinette,

25:20

noun, a seamstress

25:22

in a Paris fashion house. Origin

25:24

French from midi, midday, and dinette,

25:26

like dinner, because only a

25:28

short break was taken for lunch.

25:32

Eudemonic, adjective, conducive to happiness.

25:34

Poudeur, noun, a sense of

25:36

shame or embarrassment, especially with

25:38

regards to matters of a

25:40

sexual or personal nature. Dromos,

25:43

noun, an avenue or passage

25:45

leading into an ancient Greek

25:47

temple or tomb. Vigesimal,

25:49

adjective, relating to or based

25:52

on the number 20. How

25:54

be it adverb,

25:56

archaic, nevertheless, you

25:59

back. noun, a mountain

26:01

slope which receives little sunshine.

26:03

Ambervert, noun, a person who

26:06

has a balance of extrovert

26:08

and introvert features in their

26:10

personality. Satyagraha, noun, passive political

26:12

resistance, especially as advocated by

26:15

Mahatma Gandhi against British rule

26:17

in India. Frisket, noun, in

26:19

painting and crafts, an adhesive

26:22

substance or stencil used to

26:24

cover areas of a surface

26:26

on which paint is not

26:29

wanted. Zuolatry. Zuolatry. noun, rare,

26:31

the worship of animals. Amophagy,

26:33

noun, the eating of raw

26:35

food, especially raw meat. Trudgeon,

26:38

noun, a swimming stroke like

26:40

the crawl with a sizzer

26:42

movement of the legs. Drabble,

26:45

verb, make wet and dirty

26:47

in muddy water. We've had

26:49

drabble twice. Helen, that's a

26:52

spreadsheet fail. Logomache, noun, an

26:54

argument about words. Can you

26:56

imagine such a thing? Eubiety,

26:59

noun, poetic slash literary, the

27:01

condition of being in a

27:04

definite place. Fugu, noun, archaeology,

27:06

a form of artificial underground

27:08

passage or chamber found in

27:11

Cornwall. Nyant, adjective, heraldry, brackets

27:13

of official marine creature, close

27:15

brackets, swimming horizontally. Zerophyte, noun,

27:17

botany, a plant which needs

27:20

very little water. Chink, one

27:22

verb. Change direction suddenly and

27:24

nimbly, too, noun, a sudden

27:26

quick change of direction. Caponee,

27:29

noun, a covered passage across

27:31

a ditch round of fort.

27:33

Quinnella, noun, a bet predicting

27:36

the first two places in

27:38

a race but not necessarily

27:40

in the right order. Ein,

27:42

verb, archaic brackets of a

27:45

sheet or goat close brackets,

27:47

give birth to brackets a

27:49

lamb or kid close brackets.

27:52

Bibo, noun, dated, dated, dated,

27:54

dated. a man's illegitimate child.

27:56

Quorum, noun, formal, a preface

27:58

or preamble to a book

28:01

or speech. Creeksbiel, noun, one,

28:03

a war game in which

28:05

blocks representing armies are moved

28:08

around on maps, two, a

28:10

form of chess with an

28:12

umpire in which each player

28:14

has only limited information about

28:17

the opponent's moves. Remoage, noun,

28:19

the periodic turning or shaking

28:21

of bottled wine, especially champagne,

28:23

to move sediment towards the

28:25

cork. Halation. noun, the spreading

28:27

of light to form a

28:29

fog round the edges of

28:31

a bright image in a

28:33

photograph or on a television

28:35

screen. Aglet, noun, a metal

28:37

or plastic tube, fixed tightly

28:39

around each end of a

28:41

shoelace. Tritagonist, noun, the person who

28:43

is third in importance after

28:46

the protagonist and deuteragonist, in

28:48

an ancient Greek drama. Debridement,

28:51

noun, medicine, the removal of

28:53

damaged tissue or foreign objects

28:56

from a wound. Hutment,

28:58

noun, military, an encampment

29:00

of huts. Newkle, adjective,

29:03

anatomy, of or relating to

29:05

the nape of the neck.

29:07

Zugma, noun, a figure of

29:09

speech in which a word applies

29:11

to two others in different

29:13

senses, e.g. John and his driving

29:15

licence expired last week. Wait, what?

29:18

That seems glib. John's dead? There's

29:20

got to be a better

29:22

example of Zugma than that. Hackenate,

29:27

verb, poetic, slash literary,

29:29

to laugh loudly. Livant,

29:31

verb, British, archaic, abscond

29:34

leaving unpaid debts. Vybrasai,

29:36

plural noun, zoology, long

29:39

stiff hairs growing around

29:41

the mouth or elsewhere

29:44

on the face of

29:46

many mammals, whiskers. Moniliform,

29:48

adjective, zoology and botany,

29:50

resembling a string of

29:53

beads. Jogulate, verb, archaic.

29:55

Kill by cutting the throat.

29:58

Use your frot, noun. Roman

30:00

law, the right to enjoy the

30:02

use of another's property short of

30:05

the destruction or waste of its

30:07

substance, strumeneous, adjective, stroy, light, worthless,

30:10

straw-coloured. I don't think I've ever

30:12

seen or heard straw-ee before, the

30:14

adjective of being straw-like. Comedy, noun,

30:17

one, an association of nations for

30:19

their mutual benefit. Two, formal, courtesy

30:21

and considerate behavior towards others. Galactagog,

30:24

noun, medicine, a food or drug

30:26

that promotes the flow of a

30:29

mother's milk. Prong, verb, of an

30:31

antelope, leap in the air with

30:33

an arched back and stiff legs.

30:36

Xeric, adjective, ecology, containing little moisture,

30:38

very dry. Froust, noun, a warm

30:41

stuffy atmosphere in a room, verb,

30:43

loung about in such an atmosphere.

30:45

Misprision, noun, nouns about in such

30:48

an atmosphere, noun, nouns, nouns about

30:50

in such an atmosphere, noun, noun.

30:52

noun, noun, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

30:55

nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

30:57

nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

31:00

nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

31:02

nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

31:04

nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns, nouns,

31:07

nouns the deliberate concealment of one's

31:09

knowledge of a crime. Rowl, noun,

31:11

a spiked revolving disc at the

31:14

end of a spur. Linstock, noun,

31:16

a long pole used to hold

31:19

a match to fire a cannon.

31:21

Yarak, noun, of a train talk

31:23

again? Helen! There's so many words

31:26

in the dictionary, Yarak made it

31:28

in twice! Quadruminous, adjective, zoology, dated,

31:31

of primates. having all four feet

31:33

modified as hands, i.e. having opposable

31:35

digits. Flockmaster, noun, a sheep farmer.

31:38

Spaven, noun, a disorder of a

31:40

horse's hawk. Extra position, noun, grammar,

31:42

the placing of a word or

31:45

group of words outside are at

31:47

the end of a clause while

31:50

retaining the sense, e.g. It's no

31:52

use crying over spilt milk. Iliwaka,

31:54

noun, Australian, Australian, informal. a small

31:57

time confidence trickster. Afferent, physiology, adjective,

31:59

relating to or denoting the conduction

32:01

of nerve impulses or blood inwards

32:04

or towards something, the opposite

32:06

of efferent, cobbled noun in

32:08

Germanic mythology, a spirit

32:10

who haunts houses or

32:13

lives underground. Horsed noun, geology,

32:15

a raised elongated block of

32:17

the earth's crust lying between

32:20

two faults. Welsh onion, noun,

32:22

an Asian onion that forms

32:24

clusters of slender bulbs which

32:27

resemble spring onions. Oxiput,

32:29

noun, anatomy, the back of

32:31

the head, jacery, noun, a

32:34

communal uprising or revolt, decrepitate,

32:37

verb, technical brackets

32:39

of a solid,

32:41

close brackets, disintegrate

32:43

audibly when heated. Poetaster,

32:46

noun, one who writes

32:48

inferior poetry, glete, noun,

32:51

a watery discharge from

32:53

the urethra caused by

32:55

gomerial infection. Toxophyllite,

32:58

noun, a student or lover

33:00

of archery, adjective of or

33:02

relating to archers and archery.

33:05

Imagineer, noun, a person who

33:07

devises a highly imaginative concept

33:10

or technology, especially the attractions

33:12

in Walt Disney theme

33:14

parks, emolument, noun, a

33:16

salary, fee or benefit

33:18

from employment or office. Verga,

33:20

plural vergi, meteorology. A mass

33:23

of streaks of rain appearing

33:25

to hang under a cloud

33:27

and evaporating before reaching

33:29

the ground. Cluth, noun, South

33:32

African, a wooded ravine or

33:34

valley. Congeries, noun, a disorderly

33:37

collection. Extrados, noun, the

33:39

upper or outer curve of

33:41

an arch, often contrasted with

33:43

intrados. Pissmyre, noun, an

33:45

ant, from the middle English

33:47

pis, alluding to the smell

33:49

of an antil and obscure

33:51

mire, meaning ant. Numbrel, noun,

33:54

heraldic, the point halfway between

33:56

fest point and the base

33:58

of the shield. Waterbrush,

34:00

noun, a sudden flow

34:02

of saliva associated with

34:04

indigestion. Mosculum, noun, a

34:06

large aperture in a

34:08

sponge through which water

34:11

is expelled. Caprine, adjective,

34:13

relating to or resembling

34:15

a goat or goats.

34:17

Sculf, noun, Scottish, one,

34:19

a splinter or sliver,

34:21

two, informal, an annoying

34:23

person. Maskinonge, noun, another

34:25

term for musculine. Muskellonge,

34:27

noun, a large pike

34:30

that occurs only in

34:32

the Great Lakes region

34:34

of North America. Bavodage,

34:36

noun, rare, idle gossip,

34:38

limbnology, noun, the study

34:40

of lakes and other

34:42

bodies of fresh water.

34:44

And finally, way back

34:46

from episode one, growlic,

34:49

noun, the entrails of

34:51

a dead deer. Verbe,

34:53

disembal, brackets, a deer

34:55

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34:58

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